Don Surber writes,
The Hill will report on Tuesday that the Senate will allow the Pentagon to give security clearances to felons, drug addicts and the mentally incompetent.What's happening here is the DoD is calling Congress's bluff. As far as I'm aware, every member of Congress has a compartmented security clearance, and we know that place is itself filled with felons, drug addicts and the mentally incompetent. Why should some nobody congressman get access to sensitive info, but not people who have actually already gone through a Defense Department hiring and vetting process?
I'd bet my security clearance that we can't trust the lot of 'em in Congress. Aside from out-and-out leaking info to the press, let's say, hypothetically, that Joe Schmoe Representative from Nowheresville has to vote on some FoPo bill, but he doesn't have any idea what's going on in the relevant national intel estimate or whatever. (And, he probably doesn't have time to go and read it anyway, but that's another story.) This congressman is an idiot, and his staffers might be a little more knowledgable about the subject. But his staffers aren't cleared for the info, only he is. Does that mean he's going to keep the info confidential, try to sort it out himself, and then go and vote based on nothing? Maybe.
[Don Surber]
[The Hill]
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